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Temperature & Humidity: The Silent Killers of Wood Flooring Projects Wood flooring can be temperamental. It shrinks, expands, warps, fades and cracks. Many installers avoid it for these reasons, but at Intertech, we love working with wood flooring – installing it, finishing and refinishing it, and basking in its natural, long-lasting beauty. The secret to…
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Understanding Your Resilient Vinyl Flooring Options Vinyl flooring is a proverbial alphabet soup of acronyms that, for those fairly new to the world of commercial flooring and project management, can be a bit challenging to decipher. How do you know the difference between VCT and LVT? What about BBT or SV? And once you have…
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Experts in concrete flooring challenges By Gilbert Garza, Project Manager and Grant Imhoff, Project Coordinator We all know that 2020 brought its share of challenges, but challenges are something that we at Intertech are very accustomed to overcoming. One of the challenges we often encounter at Intertech is uneven subfloors, and last year was no…
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In April, Texas Governor Greg Abbott gave Texas Motor Speedway® the green light to offer racing again – albeit with no fans present. Nonetheless, the announcement was welcome news to fans, drivers and speedway managers. “Texas Governor Greg Abbott has given NASCAR® the green flag to race, and our sport is eager to get back…
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Tour any new commercial project and it is likely you’ll be walking on tile. Tile is one of the hottest commercial flooring choices right now, and there’s a good reason why it is trending in popularity. Here are four reasons to consider tile for your next project. Flexibility Tile floors deliver crisp, cool, distinctive finishes…
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Intertech Flooring Provides Official NASCAR Garage Floors At Texas Motor Speedway® Jan. 3, 2017, Dallas, TX— Intertech Commercial Flooring, the exclusive provider of the LATICRETE® SUPERCAP System of self-leveling underlayments and commercial flooring products in the Southwest, unveiled another state-of-the-art flooring project with the opening this fall of the renovated Official NASCAR garage space at…
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There’s been no shortage of chatter in the Austin press over downtown construction concrete pours recently. As high-rise residences proliferate across the Central Business District, residents are frustrated with noisy and bright overnight concrete pours at neighboring construction sites. Yet, daytime concrete pours on these large projects add to downtown’s already heavy congestion and create…
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Intertech Flooring’s Guide to Carpet Care A consistent, well-planned maintenance or vitalization program prolongs carpet life and decreases environmental footprint and life cycle costs by removing soil and stains before carpet damage can occur. On average, for every 1,000 employees, approximately 26 pounds of dirt is tracked into a typical commercial facility each month. Preventing…
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Consider this typical – and all-too-frequent — scenario: A local high school installs new flooring in its gym. Less than two years later, the new gym floors are starting to blister. The building contractor and design architect are called in to assess the problem, and soon, all eyes turn to the flooring contractor. The manufacturer…
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When the Intertech concrete solutions team is called to assess flooring failure due to moisture, we often find it occurred following either poorly run testing – or worse yet, no testing at all – prior to installation. The fact is, in today’s high-cost, low-margin construction economy, it simply is not enough that flooring contractors are…
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